The Soul Room

Today marks the start of my latest challenge!  I’m doing the Lam-Rim Meditation Retreat (The Graduated Path to Enlightenment) at Chenrezig Institute for a whole month.

Yes, one whole month!  I feel so very blessed and fortunate to have this wonderful opportunity.  The whole month is in silence! and the retreat has a focus on mindfulness training, meditation and teachings.

I look forward to sharing the…

On my recent Vipassana Meditation Retreat I met a beautiful lady named Julie Pappas who is the creator of ‘Peaceful Journeys for Little Souls’, a meditation cd designed specifically for children.

For us big kids, meditation can help us to handle the stresses of our every day lives and cultivate a sense of calmness, confidence and peace within.  It can do the same…

Day 1 felt like the longest day in history! It was one of those days that just never seemed to end and in the evening I thought ‘wow, I’ve got 9 of these to go.’ But it was a good feeling not one of worry or fear.

By this stage my equanimity of mind (not reacting to the sensations in my body) was growing stronger and stronger and my understanding of the true nature of sensations, they arise and then pass away, deepened immensely.

Day 4 is considered an important day as it’s the start of the real Vipassana practice and this is where it got very interesting. The prior 3 days had basically been training in awareness and sharpening the mind.